When I was a teenager growing up in Russia, I wanted to leave school and have my own life. The only way I could do this was to work in the local brick factory in my town, or get married. I was nervous when I told my father I wanted to leave school. I thought he would say, " No! You are going to college. " He took me by surprise when he said, "OK. We'll go to the brick factory. "
Two days later, he took me to the factory. I had a very romantic idea of working in a factory. ' I had imagined everyone to be friends working together and having fun. I even imagined there would be music and singing. I guess I had watched too many movies as a teenager.
When we arrived at the factory gates, my father spoke to the guard and one minute later we were inside. My father said, "Take your time. Look around." I walked around the factory looking at the building, the workers, and listening to the noise. It was horrible. I ran back to my. father and said, "I want to go home. "
He asked me, "What do you think of the factory?"
"It's terrible," I replied.
"And marriage is even worse!" he said.
I went back to school the next day thinking about studying hard so I could get into a good college. I enjoyed studying English so I decided to major in languages at college. Thanks to my father and our trip to the brick factory, I now work at the United Nations and my father is very proud of me. I married a very good man and my life is much better than it would have been working in the factory!
【小題1】 The writer lived in_________ when she was a teenager.
A. Russia B. Japan C. China
【小題2】At first she thought life in the factory would be _       _ than in school.
A. more careful B. more colorful C. more beautiful
【小題3】When she told her father that she wanted to leave school, he expressed his disagreement________.
A. by doing nothing    B. in a special way C. by saying nothing
【小題4】 After they visited the factory, the girl________.
A. decided to work there        B. decided to get married        C. changed her mind
【小題5】The underlined word "horrible" means "_     _" in Chinese.
A. 糟糕的    B. 緊張的   C. 浪漫的

 

angry  invite  however  with  please  from  visitor  celebrate  taste  soup  fine  he

 

One day a visitor came to Nasreddin’s house. “I am your cousin ___1.____ Konya,” he said, “and I have brought you a duck to ___2.___ the visit.” Nasreddin was ___3.___. He asked his wife to cook the duck, and served the visitor a ___4.___ dinner.

The next day another visitor arrived. “I am the friend of the man who brought you the duck,” he said. Nasreddin invited him in and gave ____5.___ a good meal. The next day another visitor arrived and said he was the friend of the friend of the man who had brought the duck. Again Nasreddin invited him in for a meal. ___6.___, he was getting a bit angry. ___7.___ seemed to be using his house as a restaurant.

Then another visitor came, and said he was the friend of the friend of the friend of the man who had brought the duck. He was ____8.___ in. Nasreddin’s wife brought some ____9.__ to the table and the visitor tasted it. “What kind of soup is this? It ____10.___ just like warm water.” “Ah!” said Nasrdddin. “That is the soup of the soup of the soup of the duck.”

 

用方框中所給單詞的適當(dāng)形式填空， 使短文通順、正確、連貫（每個單詞限用一次）。

A Bag of Kindness
“Boys and girls, tomorrow I want you to bring a cup of macaroni（通心粉）for our craft class, OK?” These     1   from my teacher rang in my mind all evening. I was afraid of the next day because I knew we had no macaroni at home. Living in an alcoholic（嗜酒的）family, we never had too much of anything      2    beer bottles.
I went home after school. Where could I find macaroni? I knew that the local bottle shop gave ten cents for a beer bottle, so I decided to sell some bottles to get money for macaroni. I started to
3   the bottles. After selling those bottles, I earned eighty cents. Although I did my     4   ,I still had no macaroni for my craft class.
“Weren’t you     5   when I asked you to bring it, John?”my teacher asked.
I went red in the face. I didn’t know what to say and other children started laughing. Then a little girl, Rosalyn, who sat beside me turned to me and said, “You can have some of     6   .”She offered a bag of macaroni to me. The k    6   in her eyes made me cry and I ran out of the room. I     8   took her macaroni or thanked her for her bag of kindness. However, I often think about Rosalyn and the way she turned to save me t hat day. I used to spend a great deal of my life complaining and keep kind people like Rosalyn a     9   ,After that class, I     10   .I am grateful  to all the people like Rosalyn that made this world a better place to live in.

Monty was the son of a horse trainer. When he was in his ninth grade, he was asked to write a __31__ about what he wanted to be and do when he grew up.
That night he wrote a seven-page paper saying that someday he’d __32__ a horse ranch (牧場). He wrote about his dream in great detail and he __33__ drew a picture of a 200-acre ranch with all the buildings.
He put a great deal of his __34__ into the project and the next day he handed it in __35__ his teacher. Two days later he received his paper back. On the front page was a large red F with a __36__ that read, “See me after class.”
The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after class and asked, “__37__ did I receive an F?”
The teacher said, “This is an __38__ dream for a young boy like you. You come from a poor family. Owning a horse ranch requires a lot of __39__. You have to buy the land. You have to pay for other things. There is no__40__ you could ever do it.” Then the teacher added, “__41__ you rewrite this paper with a more realisticgoal, I will reconsider your grade.”
The boy went home and thought about __42__ long and hard. He asked his father what he should do. His father said, “Look, son, you have to make up your own mind on this. However, I think it is a very important __43__ for you.”
Finally, after sitting with it for a week, the boy turned in the __44__ paper, making no changes at all. He said to the teacher, “You can keep the F and I’ll keep my   45 .”

【小題1】

A．speech B．paper C．notice D．diary

【小題2】

A．paint B．win C．own D．sell

【小題3】

A．just B．a(chǎn)lmost C．ever D．even

【小題4】

A．heart B．life C．a(chǎn)dvice D．trust

【小題5】

A．to B．with C．from D．for

【小題6】

A．word B．letter C．note D．post

【小題7】

A．How B．Why C．When D．Where

【小題8】

A．unusual B．unforgettable C．unimportant D．unrealistic

【小題9】

A．money B．time C．space D．effort

【小題10】

A．wonder B．way C．problem D．matter

【小題11】

A．Though B．since C．Until D．If

【小題12】

A．himself B．him C．it D．itself

【小題13】

A．change B．gift C．message D．decision

【小題14】

A．long B．thick C．same D．correct

【小題15】

A．grade B．dream C．duty D．secret

Read how Sofia writes a composition.

1.The weekend before she has to give it to the teacher, she sits on her own in the kitchen. First, she looks at the title and thinks a lot.	2.Then she writes a few ideas onto a piece of paper, in no particular order. She looks up a couple of words in the dictionary and writes those down.	3.Then she has a sandwich and goes to watch TV.	4.The next day she looks at what she wrote. She adds some more ideas. Then she decides how to order her ideas. She starts to write.
5.There are some words she’s not sure about so she looks them up in her dictionary.	6.When she has finished writing, she reads carefully through her composition. She crosses some things out and changes one or two sentences.	7.Then she looks back at her notes from other written work. She makes sure she hasn’t made any of the same mistakes.	8.Finally, she writes out her composition onto a clean piece of paper and puts it in her bag.

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【小題1】What does Sofia do first before she writes the composition?

A．She looks at the title and thinks a lot.

B．She has a sandwich and goes to watch TV.

C．She writes a few ideas onto a piece of paper.

D．She looks up a couple of words in the dictionary.

【小題2】When she meets some words she’s not sure,        .

A．she writes them down	B．she looks back at her notes
C．she crosses some things out	D．she looks them up in the dictionary

【小題3】From the passage we can know Sofia is a        .

A．driver

B．doctor

C．student

D．parent